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Topic: Creativity and Innovation: Individual Artists
Not unlike small businesses struggling to survive, artists must address issues such as health insurance, retirement, finding affordable work space and facilities, and developing creative ways to sustain themselves in a competitive marketplace. The vast range of approaches in which artists pursue and design their careers contributes to the richness and diversity of the field. But this diversity also makes it challenging for artists to organize as a group, as well as for artists and others to gather information about the artist population as a labor force.
Individual artists frequently face the following critical issues:
- Health Insurance: Many artists must pay for their own health insurance and are often subject to high nongroup coverage costs. The Actors Fund of America manages the Artists' Health Insurance Resource Center, which is a searchable database on health resources for artists nationwide.
- Living/Work Space: While arts organizations provide artists with work spaces, these organizations are often unstable. Affordable living and work spaces remains a challenge in many cities. Artspace and New York State Artist Workspace Consortium are two examples of initiatives designed to address this challenge.
- Emergency Relief for Artists: Natural disasters, fires, and unforseen events can threaten the livlihood of individual artists. The Craft Emergency Relief Fund provides assistance to help sustain craft artists' careers when an emergency occurs.
For information and resources supporting individual artists, visit the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Association of Artists' Organizations.
Americans for the Arts Resources (9) more
- Forging a Creative Community for the New Creative Economy
The demand for creativity has outpaced the ability of most nations to produce enough workers simply to meet their needs.
- Community Schoools of the Arts: An Arts Education Resource for your Community
This Monograph provides an overview of community schools of the arts and their potential benefits to your community, as well as ways local arts agencies and other community organizations can tap these vibrant resources.
- Building Creative Economies: The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development
Small and rural communities across the country continue to face drastic population shifts and economic upheaval. Many efforts are underway in these areas to create and implement economic revitalization strategies. In analyzing resources, strengths, and needs, communities are increasingly seeing the potential of their existing creative economies—sectors of the economy that include arts, culture and heritage organizations, businesses, and workers—as strong revenue, employment, and quality of life generators, or "creative industries."
Project Profile (37) more
- ArtistLink
ArtistLink, an initiative that focuses on the advancement of an artist space agenda in Massachusetts, was created in 2003 as a means of addressing the need for space to perform, practice, and create.
- Alaska Native Artist Summit
Last October, AKASCA joined with the Alaska Native Heritage Center and numerous other Native arts organizations to sponsor the first Alaska Native Artist Summit.
- Health Care for Artists
Fractured Atlas provides its members with affordable health care options for artists in all 50 states.
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- Crossover: How Artists Build Careers across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work
Released November 2006, this study finds that many artists' work spans two or more sectors, that artists would increase such crossover if money were not an issue, and that each sector provides special artistic development opportunities.
- Artists' Centers: Evolution and Impact on Careers, Neighborhoods and Economies
A new study from the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, "Artists' Centers: Evolution and Impact on Artists, Neighborhoods, and Economies," shows that Minnesota's strong creative economy owes much of its success to the unusual number and quality of dedicated gathering spaces for artists in Minnesota. The study profiles 22 arts centers and individual artists.
- Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
"Bringing serious attention to the neglected issue of the American way of funding the arts, Good and Plenty is essential reading for anyone concerned about the arts or their funding."
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